Before his masterpieces Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin established his reputation with this stunning collection of short fiction. In Ellis Island & Other Stories, Helprin weaves tales of love, history, and the indomitable human spirit.
From the haunting title novella about an immigrant's arrival in a dreamlike New York, to stories set in the Alps and the battlefields of the past, Helprin's prose is lush, romantic, and deeply moving.
Mark Helprin is often associated with "Magical Realism," but of a distinctly American variety. His New York is not just a city of concrete, but a place of myth and winter light. The title story, "Ellis Island," is considered a classic of Jewish-American literature.
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